Lamp-shade support



(No Model.)

0. P. WEGENER.

LAMP SHADE SUPPORT.

No. 438,455. Patented Oct. 14, 1890.

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OTTO F. IVEGENER, OF SEATTLE, \VASHINGTON.

LAM P-SHADE SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,455, dated October 14, 1890.

Application filed March 1,1890. Serial No. 342,233- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO F. WEGENER, of Seattle, Kings county, State of Washington, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Lamp-Shade Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to lamp-shades of that class that are adjustable in a horizontal circular path around the lamp; and it has especial reference to the form of shade shown in a previous application for a patent filed by me July 29, 1889, Serial No. 319,058.

My present invention consists in providing the fount or oil-receptacle with atroughshaped peripheral rim at the point where it projects farthest from the center, which trough-rim has an overhanging lip, and is designed to receive a sliding foot bearing the shade, which is thus made adjustable around the lamp, as hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 isa side View of alamp-fount, showing on opposite sides of the same two forms of my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail of the form shown on the righthand side of Fig. 1.

R is the peripheral trough-rim, which on the left-hand side of Fig. 1 is shown riveted to metal strips S, which at top and bottom are connected to the rings n n, which embrace the shank and neck of the lamp, forming a sort of skeleton frame. This is applicable to the fount of anylamp. On the right-hand side of this figure the peripheral trough-rim R is shown as being formed of the same metal or glass which constitutes the body or fount of 3 5 the lamp, (see Fig. 2,) and does not need any special support. In all cases the peripheral trough-rim should be attached to the fount or reservoir at the point of its greatest 'projection from the center in ahorizontal direction. 40 The trough-rim is constructed with an overhanging lip 1, that is designed to catch the toe t of the sliding foot F of the shade P. This makes a loose sliding connection that sustains the shade against dropping down, 5 and yet allows it to be shifted horizontally around the lamp to any desired position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. Alamp-fount having upon its outer portion a peripheral trough-shaped rim having an overhanging lip I, combined with a lampshade having a sliding foot fitting within the trough of the rim and supported upon and sliding around the lamp upon said rim, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a lamp-fount, of a peripheral rim attached to a skeleton frame and fastened upon the lamp fount, and a lampshade mounted upon and sliding on said peripheral rim, substantially as and for the purpose described.

OTTO F. WVEGENER.

Witnesses:

J. D. MoDERMoTT, F. J. MITCHELL. 

